Infernal Artist

boom!

The arena shook slightly.

The flame giant lizard launched a charge, gradually accelerating as it pounced on Liu Ping——

Then he fell hard to the ground.

It struggled to get up from the ground and gasped: "Poison? Impossible. I am the king of poisonous lizards. What method did you use..."

Liu Ping didn't bother to look at it anymore, so he just snapped his fingers.

Three half-human, half-insect monsters appeared quietly and looked at Liu Ping with a subtle expression.

"Do you want freedom?" Liu Ping asked.

"Think." A monster said.

"That's impossible," Liu Ping said slowly, "My only promise is to keep you alive - provided you obey."

He stretched out his hand and pointed at the flame giant lizard.

"Go and kill it."

"yes."

The three-headed monster swayed, and several translucent wings appeared behind it, flying towards the flame giant lizard.

The giant lizard showed a vigilant look, and its body emitted a deeper red flame.

"Just you?" it snorted disdainfully.

Suddenly, a swift shadow passed by.

Boom!

The monitor lizard was beaten back a few steps.

A half-human, half-insect monster appeared and said with a smile: "It looks very strong, but it can't even dodge my attacks..."

The other two monsters vibrated their wings together and made a high-frequency "buzzing" sound.

——They are gathering strength and making final preparations for this hunt.

When Liu Ping saw this, he stopped looking.

He walked to the other end of the arena, reached out and took out the card book.

The cover of the card book still reads that line:

"The way of hypocrisy."

"——Advice from the Holy Knight."

Liu Ping turned the pages of the book and saw that the card slot representing the Holy Communion spell on the first page was gone.

The entire paper turned blank.

Liu Ping wanted to turn to the second page, but found that he couldn't.

Lines of burning small characters quickly appeared in the void:

"You have learned the Holy Knight's first ability: Holy Communion."

"When your card level reaches a certain level and your soul power reaches a certain standard, you will be able to turn to the next page and obtain new Holy Knight abilities."

Liu Ping couldn't help but feel a little distressed after reading it at a glance.

Upgrade...

If you want to level up, you must give up waking Andrea and Yana.

How to choose?

Having said that, as a prison knight, all your skills are used on others, but there are also benefits——

The battle mode of the Prison Knight determines that he is safe until all his cards are defeated.

In his card, Andrea is the young dragon, Yana is the god, plus the nine-life cat demon Zhao Chanyi——

If he wakes up Andrea and Yana, he can basically ensure his own safety in this human empire.

but--

There are always things that disrupt your plans.

He reached out and pulled out a card gently, then threw it out.

Bang!

Qian Zhouwu appeared on the opposite side.

"Liu Ping..." Qian Zhouwu stared at him with disbelief on his face.

"Speaking of which, you should thank me." Liu Ping said.

"Why?" Qian Zhouwu asked.

"Become my card, and you won't have to work for that monster anymore, and I'm a very tolerant person and won't be too harsh on you and your companions," Liu Ping said.

Qian Zhouwu looked into the distance.

At the other end of the arena, three bugs were rising up to kill, but the flame giant lizard could only barely cope.

Its defeat and death are only a matter of time.

"Don't you resent me?" Qian Zhouwu asked.

"Don't worry, I'm not interested in the grudges between you adolescent boys at all. I just want to ask you one thing." Liu Ping said.

"What?"

"That being in the cemetery, who did you plant its soul into?"

"...You want to know this?"

"Of course, that monster must have sneaked into the empire. I must take precautions in advance. It is best to crush it to death before its soul has grown up. This way, I can have a stable time again and slowly obtain it. All kinds of knowledge, gradually improving personal level - peaceful time is always wonderful, isn't it?" Liu Ping said with a smile.

Qian Zhouwu was silent for a while and whispered: "Since I returned to the imperial capital, I haven't actually contacted anyone, and those people are not the targets of the terrifying existence in the cemetery."

"Oh? It also has a goal?" Liu Ping asked with interest.

Qian Zhouwu said: "That's right, a guy full of ambition and desire like it... How could it be willing to be an ordinary person? It wants to control everything as soon as it enters this empire..."

boom!

A deafening sound sounded.

The two couldn't help but turn their heads to look, and saw the flame giant lizard lying on the ground, too dead to be dead anymore.

The three-headed insects flew back and landed respectfully in front of Liu Ping.

"Good job. Oops, I forgot. You can actually take this giant lizard as your subordinate, but it doesn't matter. There is another way -"

After Liu Ping finished speaking, he led them to the monitor lizard's body.

He squatted down and groped for a while on the monitor lizard's body.

A line of burning small words quickly appeared:

"You activated the ability from Andrea: Treasure Pickup."

Liu Ping felt a cold metal object in his hand.

He pulled back.

I saw it was a bell made of gold, with a line of small words engraved on it:

"The personal mount of the manor steward."

Manor Butler——

Huh?

Aldrich finally got rid of his status as a slave and became the manor's butler?

In other words, he is about to become famous?

Then, in the Ascension Battle next month, the cards in his hand may become a few points stronger.

After he gets to know Yana, he will be qualified to use Yana's deck——

That's dangerous.

Liu Ping remained silent for several breaths.

Finally, it was time to make a decision.

Awakening Andrea and Yana has become an unrealistic goal in the short term.

He must become stronger immediately.

——Then take on Aldrich’s cards!

Liu Ping kneaded the golden bell into a solid gold nugget, weighed it, and said to himself: "It can be exchanged for a lot of money."

He collected the gold nugget and turned to Qian Zhouwu and said, "Okay, let's hurry up and tell me the identity of the parasite."

Qian Zhouwu showed hesitation, and finally sighed and said, "Okay."

…

Imperial City.

Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night.

In the darkness, a thick card book was opened, and cards were revealed page after page.

The strange thing is that these cards quickly turned gray and white.

It's just like--

They are all dead.

The hands that flipped through the card books seemed to be tireless, flipping continuously for dozens of minutes before stopping.

"Let me see... very good, those useless corpse insects have been eliminated, and the power in the soul has returned to me..."

"but--"

A finger stretched out and lightly tapped on a gray card.

I saw Qian Zhouwu painted on this card. He was wearing a military uniform, his expression was dull, and he stood motionless in the center of the card.

"What kind of ability can actually steal my herald?"

"The herald is a slave with potential and has completed the task very well..."

The voice paused for a few breaths.

"Although it's a pity, let's forget it. I can't let him reveal anything about me."

He took out another card from the darkness with one hand and whispered:

"The killing curse is activated."

Bang!

A ray of black light quickly dispersed from the card, disappeared into the void.

"Okay, no matter who he belongs to now, the death curse hidden in his soul can guarantee that he has been completely eliminated."

The voice said, slowly closing the card book in his hand.

Soon.

Two rows of neat footsteps, approaching from far away, stopped outside the door, blocked by a curtain of diamonds studded as densely as stars.

A respectful voice sounded from outside:

"Your Majesty, the Commander-in-Chief of the Empire wishes to see you!"

"Let him in!"

said the voice.